All articles by Bianca Castro – Page 19
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NewsSolicitor coerced vulnerable client into sending explicit images
Case-handler claimed he needed images to support a non-molestation order application.
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NewsBar revives royal commission idea for criminal justice
Criminal justice system ‘can no longer operate in crisis mode, lurching from one emergency measure to another, week after week’.
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News‘Vaccine campaign’ solicitor fails in abuse of process application
Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal is told legal threats made by lawyer over Covid-19 vaccines were part of an ‘ideological campaign’.
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NewsJudge stays financial proceedings to allow non-court resolution
Divorce hearing is a 'paradigm case' for the court to exercise its new powers on ADR.
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NewsCourtwatchers expose a 'wild west'
A mass observation project which sat in on more than 1,100 magistrates’ court hearings found a system that ‘often falls short’, with courtwatchers ‘shocked’ by the inefficiency they witnessed.
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NewsCosts order fair where barrister forgot to renew PC
Master was ’not wrong’ to limit recovery of direct access barrister’s fees.
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NewsBitcoin money launderer sentenced to 80 months in prison
Attempts to buy multi-million-pound property in London were thwarted by Mishcon de Reya’s ‘know your client’ questions.
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NewsFormer solicitor Soophia Khan returns to prison for contempt
No ‘stay of execution’ in long-running legal battle with SRA over missing documents, Court of Appeal rules.
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NewsFormer City traders set to take legal fight to Supreme Court
Tom Hayes, jailed for rate-rigging, calls for UK legal system to 'align with the rest of the world' and for 'these miscarriages of justice to be corrected.'
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NewsMagistrate given formal advice over ‘untruth’ about fellow magistrates
Complaint was made to the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office that the magistrate had spread a ‘lie’.
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NewsReceptionist who couldn’t say law firm’s name loses at tribunal
Temporary receptionist ‘acted unreasonably’ in pursuing employment claims against Wykeham-Hurford Sheppard & Son.
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NewsHigh Court finds anti-protest legislation unlawful
Lord Justice Green and Mr Justice Kerr uphold two of campaign group Liberty’s four grounds of legal challenge against government.
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NewsMR hails digital justice watershed - but disowns his ‘famous “funnel”’
Master of the rolls Sir Geoffrey Vos says CPRC will ‘provide a set of open digital standards to enable existing digitisation to be coordinated’.
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NewsSRA loses appeal against £75k tribunal costs order
High Court finds Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal was entitled to make order over ‘flawed’ proceedings.
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NewsSC’s liability judgment a ‘get out of jail free card for company directors’
Judgment erects 'barrier to bringing claims against directors of counterfeiting companies and other IP infringers'.
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NewsCosts judge questions law firm’s £2.5m bill in family dispute
Level of costs 'perhaps more appropriate to heavy and high-level commercial litigation'.
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NewsBan for barrister who failed to pay £300k debt
Lawyer failed to comply with county court judgment which ordered her to pay more than £300,000 to a creditor.
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NewsHillsborough inquiry solicitor wins legal aid appeal
Senior Costs Judge Gordon-Saker finds solicitor, who was acquitted of perverting the course of justice, was ‘reasonable’ in instructing the counsel he did.
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NewsSpeeding magistrate given formal advice over mentioning role in court
Judicial Conduct Investigations Office says the magistrate apologised but only mentioned his status ‘to explain the circumstances behind offence’.
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NewsStay of trial over lack of CPS counsel was ‘based on mistakes’ - Carr
Judgment highlights ‘challenges arising out of under-resourcing of the criminal justice system’ in case centred on stay over lack of prosecuting counsel.